Robert S. Breen (1909-1991) Papers 1909-1992

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Robert S. Breen (1909-1991) Papers 1909-1992

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Professor Robert S. Breen joined the faculty of the Northwestern University in 1947. Professor Breen’s distinguished academic career included his originating and refining the concept of Chamber Theatre. Chamber Theatre, now widely known and used, permitted the dramatic presentation of fiction and non-fiction without the artificial elimination of the narrator which more traditional dramatizations required. Readers' Theatre, the ensemble presentation of dramatic literature, were also a research and performance interest of Professor Breen. Professor Breen appeared on Broadway and performed on television and directed television productions. He married the former Gertrude Bader in 1935. As documentation of Robert and Gertrude Breen’s careers are interwoven and, in many places, indistinguishable, the Robert and Gertrude Breen Papers conflate documents relating to both dramatic artists. This series contains course materials, performance files which document theatre performances in which Breen both appeared and directed, research files as well as correspondence files.

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Breen, Robert S.

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In the early 1930s, a small group of arts patrons from Philadelphia and New York began to act upon their conviction that Americans should have a national theater organization that would serve the American public better than Broadway, with its high ticket prices and limited touring policy. Under the leadership of Leopold Stokowski, and with the help of several influential supporters, they persuaded Congress to enact a federal charter for a national theater - a rare and significant authorization b...

Breen, Gertrude, 1911-1992

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Professor Robert S. Breen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 30, 1909. He received a bachelor of Science in Speech, majoring in study of the theatre, in 1933, and a Master of Arts in Theatre in 1937, both from Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in Interpretation from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1950. He served as an instructor at Knox College (1935-36), and Lafayette College (1940-41), and in the U.S. Army (1941-45) before joining the fa...